What is BTA Leaders?

BTA Leaders is a unique executive recruitment & consultancy service designed specifically for the third sector. Our team consists of ex-chief executives with extensive experience who are dedicated to guiding fellow CEOs and boards through their recruitment and consultancy needs.

What sets BTA Leaders apart is our comprehensive, end-to-end service that focuses on understanding the specific requirements of each organisation. We engage in meaningful conversations with our clients, ensuring we grasp their unique contexts and challenges. By using our in-depth non-profit knowledge, we assist organisations in defining their needs clearly, and we conduct thorough candidate screenings to ensure a strong and lasting organisational fit. 

With BTA Leaders, you are not just speaking to a recruitment agency; you are partnering with peers who understand the intricacies of the sector and are committed to helping you build effective leadership teams that drive meaningful impact.

Abeer McIntyre

Freelance Consultant to the Not-for-Profit Sector and Director of Engagement at BTA.

Abeer Macintyre has held senior positions in the public, private and third sectors. She has received accolades and awards for her contributions in all three. Her career in the not for profit sector has included Director level roles overseeing significant organisational development projects and income generation. This has included Scottish, UK and international organisations. She was Chief Executive of BTA for 7 years, driving exponential growth in the recruitment and consultancy offering to charities and to businesses wishing to engage with the sector. She is now BTA’s Director of Engagement and Lead Associate with principal responsibility for recruiting senior and strategic roles. She is an expert in leadership, organisational transformation, communications, income generation and governance. She has been awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by Rotary International for services to charity. She is also currently a Non-Executive Director of NHS24.

Anne Gibson

Non Executive Director of NHS 24.

With extensive experience as an HM Inspector of Education, Anne Gibson has been a key advocate for youth development and inclusion.

She's contributed to national initiatives and ministerial working groups focused on enhancing educational and workforce opportunities for young people. Previously leading projects in partnership with the Care inspectorate, Anne currently serves on the Boards of Youth Scotland, Harmeny Education Trust, and the Scran Academy. She is a member of the General Teaching Council for Scotland's Education Panel and a lay member of the Joint Standing Committee for Legal Education in Scotland.

Derek A.Roberston

Interim Executive, Management Consultant, Business Leader, Experienced CEO. Director of Insight Consulting.

Derek is an award winning, commercially astute and accomplished leader with an extensive career working in public service, established over a 35-year period. This has largely been in the UK charity sector as a senior executive where he held several Chief Executive and Director roles, across Scotland and England, with national and international organisations including the YMCA, British Red Cross, Green Action Trust and the Groundwork Federation. Derek has also held several Non-executive and Government advisory roles. 

Derek has seasoned experience in assisting Boards to restructure, modernise and refresh company policies and procedures as appropriate. He has provided direct leadership and guidance of a political, environmental, social, legislative and economic nature to NEDs and has drafted a variety of frameworks for governance, based on best practice. He demonstrates confidence in providing strategic, tactical and political advice/support to boards and their sub-committees setting out how to build up effective working structures across the business.

Dr. Eric Carlin

PhD, FRSA. Network builder and leader with expertise in equalities, public health, and youth advocacy.

Eric Carlin, based in Glasgow, Scotland, is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in the third and public sectors, including nearly four years at the World Health Organisations Regional Office for Europe. He is highly skilled in strategic planning, public health advocacy, governance, and policy development, with a strong focus on reducing inequalities and improving health outcomes. Eric's work spans both national and international levels, with notable contributions to alcohol policy, including his pivotal role in the successful implementation of Scotland's Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) policy and his authorship of WHO's "European Framework for Action on Alcohol 2022-25."

Eric has held leadership positions at several organisations, including as Director of Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and as Chief Executive of Mentor UK and Angel Drug Services. He is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute, where he focuses on health promotion and the social determinants of health. He is committed to supporting public and third sector clients and provides consultancy support to agencies that are working to reduce health and social inequalities.

Karen Moore

Interim Executive, Management Consultant, Business Leader, Experienced CEO.

Karen is an experienced C-Suite Executive, Non-Executive Director, Chair, and Founder. She has worked within Retail, Hospitality, and for over 30 years in the Not-for-Profit sector, and she currently contributes as Chair on a Theatre Board. Karen brings knowledge and expertise in both regulated and unregulated sectors.

Since 2018, she has specialised in Interim Executive contract work and has helped various organisations. Some contracts have been to look after the organisation as a safe pair of hands and to fill the gap while the senior leader is recruited or if they have been taking extended leave. It can also give the Board time to revisit or rethink the organisation’s strategy. Karen has also led organisations and Boards through more crisis situations where there is a need to turnaround the organisation, its culture, governance, finance, and operations—any or all of these may be required. In some cases, she has sadly led organisations through dissolution.

As an Interim Executive, Karen focuses on developing organisations and leaving them with long-term solutions to help during her tenure and long into the future. 

Martin Cawley

Experienced Chief Executive Officer. Skilled in Nonprofit Organisations, Social Enterprise, Business Planning, Young People, and Social Housing.

Martin is a management consultant specialising in organisational and leadership development; a designer and facilitator of innovation and organisational change, Martin is an experienced management practitioner having held several senior executive and non-executive positions during his career. Having been employed for over 40 years in the health/social voluntary and philanthropic sectors, working with some of the country’s most respected organisations, Martin possesses an extensive range of skills, knowledge and experience successfully providing management, leadership and governance support to organisations and individuals working across a variety of sectors.

Martin takes a strategic overview and develops a positive work ethic and culture with peers, stakeholders and partners alike. He is an experienced leader and strategic thinker and effectively uses these skills at a corporate and governance level. Throughout his career Martin has worked with a range of stakeholders including national and local politicians, ministers, senior civil servants, local authorities and NHS Boards and other sectorial umbrella groups. Over the years he has also been a non-executive Board member of various agencies including voluntary sector organisations, professional bodies and social enterprises.